ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: ClusterDuck Protocol
ClusterDuck Protocol is an open-source firmware for wireless IoT devices to build communications, sensors, and custom networks. The ClusterDuck Protocol (CDP) was created by Project OWL in response to the breakdown of communication following Hurricane Maria which destroyed cell towers and generators. The project was built to restore the 1% of communication that is essential … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Grafana Enterprise Stack, Solo.io Gloo Mesh Enterprise, and StorCentric QV1020
Grafana Labs has announced the release of Grafana Enterprise Stack, which is an observability platform. The new solution includes Grafana Enterprise, Enterprise Metrics, and Enterprise Logs, which is a log aggregation solution based on Loki. “At Grafana Labs, we’re committed to providing our customers with the choice between cloud-based observability in Grafana Cloud, or the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Moogsoft and Datadog’s extended partnership, Strata Series A, and Pure Storage and Komprise partnership
Moogsoft and Datadog have announced a new partnership that will provide IT teams with better insights into incidents. The new integration, which is available through the Datadog Marketplace, allows IT teams to view metrics and events collected by Datadog in the Moogsoft Observability Cloud. Customers will be able to use the integration to better understand … continue reading
Datadog to acquire new security and observability companies
Datadog has announced the acquisition of two companies to help bolster its security and observability portfolio. It is acquiring Sqreen for its cloud security capabilities, and Timber for its data observability capabilities. Sqreen provides capabilities that help companies detect, block, and respond to attacks on the application level. According to Datadog, application security can be … continue reading
Juniper Paragon Automation enables “Experience-First Networking”
Juniper Networks is hoping to bring “Experience-First Networking” to the industry with the release of Juniper Paragon Automation. Experience-First Networking comes from the idea that when tools and processes break, consumers are the first to realize — often even before the network operators know something has gone wrong. According to Juniper, this issue isn’t an … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: pfSense
This week’s featured project of the week is pfSense, a free network firewall distribution. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system, includes a custom kernel and provides the same or more functionality of common commercial firewalls with no artificial limitations. It is currently used around the world from companies like Check Point, Cisco PIX, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: VMware and Accenture expand partnership, GigaSpaces InsightEdge Portfolio 15.8, and Diamanti Central free trial
VMware and Accenture have announced that they have expanded their current partnership. Accenture is launching a new business group at VMware aimed at helping companies with their digital transformations. Specific benefits of the new group include accelerated transformation, increased IT efficiency, reduced IT operating costs, result-driven engagement, and the ability to unlock power in data … continue reading
Executives at elevated risk for cyber threats on social media
SafeGuard Cyber, the only SaaS platform dedicated to managing the full lifecycle of digital risk protection, today released findings from a survey of 600 enterprise leaders across marketing, communications, and information security roles about the cyber risk exposure to their companies’ executives’ social media accounts. Key findings indicate that while enterprises are investing more in … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: FogHorn and IBM collaboration, Jetstack Secure, and SentinelOne acquires Scalyr
FogHorn and IBM have announced a collaboration that will bring together FogHorn’s edge capabilities with IBM’s cloud capabilities. “With computing done in so many places—on public and private clouds and the edge–the challenge that businesses face is to connect all these different elements into a cohesive, end-to-end platform,” said Chris Penrose, chief operating officer at … continue reading
Open Policy Agent graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that Open Policy Agent (OPA) is graduating. Graduation from the CNCF indicates that a project has shown “widespread adoption, an open governance process, feature maturity, and a strong commitment to community, sustainability, and inclusivity,” according to the CNCF. OPA is a tool for ensuring policy across an … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Operations Sandbox
Google is trying to bring Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to its customers, and to that end it has released a new open-source project called the Cloud Operations Sandbox. “Customers want to learn how to instrument services for observability and implement SRE best practices using tools Google Cloud has to offer, but without risking production environments,” … continue reading
Lightstep brings AIOps to observability
Observability platform provider Lightstep announced a new way to approach observability with the release of Change Intelligence. The new solution aims to provide better clarity and enable users to resolve issues before they hit customers. According to the company, while AIOps promises to improve IT operations, it doesn’t take into account today’s complex and ever-changing … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, IBM’s new hybrid cloud build team, and Cisco AppDynamic’s new security solution
Veeam has released a new version of Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, strengthening the partnership between the two companies. With this new offering, Veeam hopes to offer a single platform for protecting, securing, and managing applications and data. New features include Google Cloud-Native snapshots, cost optimization, security, and easy recovery outside of Google Cloud. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Open Telemetry to use observIQ’s log agent, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications, and Untangle’s new Channel Partner Portal
Open Telemetry will be using observIQ’s log agent Stanza as a key component for log collection. Several members of observIQ’s team will join the Open Telemetry as project maintainers. “We are thrilled to integrate observIQ’s Stanza log agent into the OpenTelemetry Project,” said Morgan McLean, co-founder of OpenTelemetry. “observIQ’s contribution to the logs portion of … continue reading
